A Week of Diversions:
December 21 -- December 28

Metropolis, Noir and Vision

The influence of the Austrian-born filmmaker Fritz Lang (1890-1976) had a profound effect on the films of later directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ridley Scott.

Lang's silent-movie, science-fiction classic "Metropolis" will launch a Hong Kong Film Archive program called "Metropolis, Noir and Vision" on Jan. 4. Accompanying it will be live music from Germany's Aljoscha Zimmermann and Ensemble.